play quotes

“I was very pushed to look a certain way and act a certain way, and it wasn't me, but I played by their rules to get my foot in the door. ”

— Christina Aguilera

“These young guys are playing checkers. I'm out there playing chess. ”

— Kobe Bryant

“I've played with IVs before, during and after games. I've played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don't miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn't that serious in the first place. ”

— Kobe Bryant

“Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock. ”

— Kurt Cobain

“I love playing ego and insecurity combined. ”

“When the first big paycheque with 'Dumb And Dumber' hit, I went: 'Gosh, I wonder if this will affect my performance. Will I do a take and think, was that worth $7 million?' But that never happened. If anything, it made me rebel against that thing when people who get rich start playing it safe. ”

“Going out and playing football or baseball with the boys, when I was a tomboy, was a great way to learn about winning and losing, and most girls didn't have that experience. ”

— Hillary Clinton

“My father was raised with brothers, he was a football player and a boxer, he was a chief petty officer in the Navy, he was a man of his times. ”

— Hillary Clinton

“With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying. ”

— Johnny Depp

“I'm not a playwright. ”

“A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good. ”

— Thomas Stearns Eliot

“Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to. ”

— Thomas Stearns Eliot

“There are a lot of conservative people, a lot of moderate people, Republicans, Democrats, in Hollywood. It is just that the conservative people by the nature of the word itself play closer to the vest. They do not go around hot dogging it. ”

— Clint Eastwood

“You know when you're young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they're trying to be old men and they have no idea what that's like? It's just that stupid the other way around. ”

— Clint Eastwood

“ It's much more fun to play something you're nothing like than what you are... It's much easier to hide yourself in a character. ”

— Clint Eastwood

“My mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so, I was listening to records and I'd play 'em over and over. ”

— Clint Eastwood

“When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.”

— Jimi Hendrix

“Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.”

— Jimi Hendrix

“I just hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player, or either only as a songwriter, or only as a tap dancer. I like to move around.”

— Jimi Hendrix

“When I die, just keep playing the records.”

— Jimi Hendrix

“When we go to play, you flip around and flash around and everything, and then they're not gonna see nothin' but what their eyes see. Forget about their ears.”

— Jimi Hendrix

“When I played God Bless The Queen, I was wondering if they was gonna dig us, then quite naturally I'd go on and try to get it together.”

— Jimi Hendrix

“I believe we should encourage children to sing and play instruments from an early age.”

— Mick Jagger

“I play into the perception of me, but it's not really me.”

— Kim Kardashian

“If you're a basketball player and you don't stop and take pictures with your fans, you can have an amazing game and everyone still loves you.”

— Kim Kardashian

“We've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics - trying to play a serious part in the world - to a culture that's really entertainment-based.”

— Stephen King

“Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.”

— Immanuel Kant

“In NFL preseason, the coaches don't use 10% of the playbook. They don't game plan. They do nothing. They don't give anything away for the regular season. They try to get everybody safely through it without anybody getting hurt.”

— Rush Limbaugh

“Lyricists play with words.”

— Paul McCartney

“I look a lot busier than I am, as I'm actually a rather sporadic, random person and I'll play a few gigs and then disappear for a while.”

— Paul McCartney

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